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Project Harmonyoffering discreetassistance toabused womenBY TOBY TABACHNICK

Staff Writer

A Pittsburgh program is working toraise awareness of the presence of do-mestic abuse in the Jewish communityin the hope of reducing the stigma ofwomen who are victims and encourag-ing them to seek help.Project Harmony has joined forces

with the Shalom Task Force, based inBrooklyn, N.Y., to provide a hotline thatwomen can call to get help and referralsto professional services.Local therapists have undergone

training regarding domestic abuse ingeneral, and specifically from a Jewishperspective, in order to help those call-ing the hotline in need, said Dr. JordanGolin, the director of clinical and eldercare services at Squirrel Hill Psycho-logical Services.“If a woman from Pittsburgh calls the

[national] hotline, a trained volunteerwill speak with her on the phone, and di-rect her to resources,” Golin said. “AJewish woman would get directed to ouragency.”Domestic abuse is an issue that af-

fects women of all walks of life, includ-ing Jewish women from all streams ofobservance. According to DeborahRosenbloom, director of programs forJewish Women International, outreachorganizations that serve Jewish womenfrom the secular to the Orthodox “allare very busy.”In fact, Rosenbloom noted that the

feedback from JWI’s Misheberach forvictims of domestic violence, which wasread over the High Holy Days in syna-gogues of all four streams of Judaism,inspired many women to come forward.

“Slowly people have been writing inthat women came forward,” said Rosen-

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Tzipora Sachs helps her son, Eliezer Henteleff, 4, decorate Eliezer’s paternal grandparents’ sukka, Sunday, in Squirrel Hill. Sukkot,the Festival of Booths, began at sundown, Wednesday. Jews all over western Pennsylvania and West Virginia were busy this pastweekend erecting their booths for the holiday.

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On June 12, 2010, Jay Feuer, then age59, was running on a treadmill at BallyTotal Fitness in Bethel Park when hecollapsed. He woke up three days later at St.

Clair Hospital.Feuer, who had always taken good

care of himself, and thought he was ingood health, had suffered a sudden car-diac arrest. He would have died had itnot been for a quick-acting paramedicwho just happened to be exercising nearhim when his heart stopped beating.

“He did CPR on me,” Feuer said, “andhe yelled at the employees to get an AED[automated external defibrillator].When they finally found it, he said hehad to use it three times on me until myheart started beating again. When I gotto St. Clair, they had to use defibrillatorsthree more times.”Four months later, after having addi-

tional problems with scar tissue and ar-rhythmia, Feuer had open-heart surgery.He has since had a complete recovery.

But his terrifying ordeal left him moti-vated to finish a project he had beenworking on for years: commissioning anew Torah for his synagogue, Beth El

Congregation of the South Hills, andpaying for it with tip money collected atthe synagogue’s weekly bingo games.Feuer has been running Beth El’s bin-

go games, along with fellow congregantFern Schwartz, for about 10 years. Bingois a large source of revenue for the con-gregation, and attracts regular playersfrom throughout the South Hills commu-nity. Often, when players win a game,they will tip the volunteers who bringthem their cash prizes. The volunteersdo not keep the tips, but turn them overto Feuer and Schwartz.“Before Fern and I took over bingo,

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While the Palestinian Authority seeksto gain United Nations recognition as anindependent state, nobody — not evenits president, Mahmoud Abbas — be-lieves such a state can come to fruitionin the absence of direct negotiationswith Israel.

And Abbas also knows that negotia-tions with Israel are futile as long as Is-raelis keep building settlements in theWest Bank, according to noted MiddleEast author and reporter BernardAvishai.

Avishai, an adjunct professor ofbusiness at Hebrew University whohas written widely on the Middle Eastconflict, spoke at the Jewish Commu-nity Center in Squirrel Hill, Tuesday,Oct. 11, to discuss “Israel and theemergence of Palestine.” J StreetPittsburgh and the Pittsburgh AreaJewish Committee sponsored his pres-entation. He spoke to the Chronicleprior to his arrival in Pittsburgh.

By going to the United Nations at this

point in time, Avishai said, Abbas is“trying to strengthen his hand.”

Although Israel may control most ofthe land the Palestinians wish to calltheir own state, the Palestinians will bein control of “two-thirds of the world’shearts and minds,” he said.

And Palestinian control of the world’shearts and minds will ultimately resultin wreaking havoc on Israel’s economy.

“Israel has become a globalized econ-omy,” Avishai said. “Even without a for-malized boycott, if the Palestinians be-come more of a subject of the world’ssympathy, and Israelis become more of asubject of the world’s exasperation, a lotof the world’s companies will say, ‘Idon’t want to work with Israel.’ ”

The decision not to work with Israeldoes not have to come from a company’sboard of directors, Avishai said, but cancome from individual engineers andmanagers.

“The Israeli economy is dependent onstartups and building relationships withEuropean companies,” Avishai said.“The little global startups have to proveup their products. If Israelis are selling

solutions, they have to know what theproducts are. That means having rela-tionships with managers in big corpora-tions. If those companies’ engineers say,‘I don’t want to deal with the Israelis,’that’s when the ‘startup nation’ (Israel)runs down. That’s when you have a kindof vicious circle where lots of talentedyoung people leave the country. It’s not a

good thing. Israel’s political isolationwill ultimately lead to its economic im-plosion.”

The solution to the threat to Israel’s“economic implosion” is obvious, ac-cording to Avishai.

“This is not rocket science,” he said.“Israel should be doing what it should

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Mideast analyst speaks hereAvishai: Settlements, right of return must be addressed to reach peace

Bernard Avishai: “Israel’s political isolation will ultimately lead to its economicimplosion.”

Please see Avishai, page 19.

The Zionist Organization ofAmerica, Pittsburgh District, willhonor former Pittsburgh Mayor SophieMasloff, formerAllegheny CountyExecutive JamesC. Roddey, attor-ney Lawrence N.Paper and volun-teer Janice Green-wald, at its 2011Awards Dinner,Wednesday, Oct.26, 6 p.m. at Con-gregation BethShalom.A native of the

Hill District and alongtime CityCouncil member,Masloff becamePittsburgh’s firstJewish and womanmayor in 1988upon the death ofRichard Caliguiri.She was 70 at thetime. The follow-ing year, she de-feated five men inthe Democraticprimary, in whichshe was not the en-dorsed candidate,and went on to winthe general elec-tion. She chose notto run again in1993.A successful

communicationsindustry executive,Roddey served onmore than 40 non-profit boards, thenchaired the PortAuthority of Al-legheny County and the Pittsburgh Wa-ter and Sewer Authority before becom-ing the county’s first chief executive in2000.

Paper is a long-time ZOA memberand currentlyserves as vicepresident of thePittsburgh District.He has also beenactive in B’naiB’rith, HadassahAuxiliary and Jew-ish War Veterans.Greenwald has

represented Hadas-sah, a nongovern-mental organization, at the United Na-tions and the Jewish NGO Caucus. A reg-istered nurse, she has also chaired theNational Nurses Council. She has visitedIsrael more than 20 times, three of whichshe led Hadassah missions for nurses.Contact the ZOA at (412) 665-4630 or

Pittsburgh@ zoa.org for more information.

The Career DevelopmentCenter will host a fall mixer, Tuesday,Oct. 18, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Al-legheny HYP Club, 619 William PennPlace, Downtown.More than 20 employers from various

industries will be present, including fi-nancial services, health care, manufac-turing, non-profit, education and the en-ergy sector.No resumes will be circulated, but

business cards are allowed. Profession-al attire is recommended. Food andbeverages will be provided. Limitedslots are available to non-CDC clientswho qualify.Resumes should be e-mailed to

[email protected]. Confirma-tion is required for admittance.

NA’AMAT USA, Pittsburgh Coun-cil, will honor Patricia L. Siger, seniorvice president and chief developmentofficer of the YMCA of Greater Pitts-burgh, at its annual Spiritual Adoption/Scholarship Dinner Monday, Oct. 17,6:30 p.m. at Congregation Beth Shalom. Siger is the co-founder of The Jew-

ish Women’s Foundation of Pitts-burgh, which supports gender-

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Where gem meets treasureSquirrel Hill corner, residents honored at SHUC functionBY JESSICA SVEC

Chronicle Correspondent

A popular city intersection hasearned the title of Squirrel HillTreasure.The corner of Forbes and Murrayavenues was honored this past Thurs-day, Oct. 6, as a neighborhood gem,marking the beginning of a newtradition.In a twist to the usual “Squirrel HillPerson of the Year” format, the SquirrelHill Urban Coalition chose to include aspecific location to honor as well asthree individuals as “unique treasures”to the Squirrel Hill community.It’s the first time the coalition hasmade such a designation for a location. Representatives from all sides of theForbes-Murray corner, including theCarnegie Library, the Sixth Presbyte-rian Church, the Jewish CommunityCenter and the Zukin Development(Rite Aid building), were there to joinin the plaque dedication.The unveiling ceremony, held on thelawn of the church, included Rev.Mary Louise McCullough, its pastor;Holly McCullough, manager of the li-brary; Rocco Didimencio, owner of theColdstone building; Wayne Zukin,

owner of the Rite-Aid building; andMayda Roth, representing the JCC.City Councilman Bill Peduto; ElsieHilliman, honorary chair of the treas-ure events; Ceci Sommers, eventchair; Lori Fitzgerald, co-chair; andSteve Hawkins, former chair of the

SHUC board, were also in attendance. The plaque will eventually find itspermanent home near the Rite Aidbuilding and will forever be a testimo-ny to the importance of this specificcorner of Squirrel Hill.With a beautiful day for a celebration,

the street fair also included a farmersmarket, Squirrel Hill’s first plant swapand a live musical performance by theSquirrel Hillbillies. Ceci Sommers, the event chair,called the Forbes-Murray intersection,“A real gem,” saying all types of peo-ple cross that corner to enjoy the widearray of shops, restaurants and coffee-houses that occupy the streets sur-rounding the bustling intersection inthe heart of it all. The three individuals being honoredwere Deb Acklin, president and CEOof WQED; Robert Levin, president andCEO of Levin Furniture; and formerPittsburgh Mayor Sophie Masloff. Adinner at the Pittsburgh Golf Coursewill be held Thursday, Oct. 13, 6 p.m.,to officially dedicate the honorees as2011 Squirrel Hill Treasures. The din-ner will include a film of the threeas well as the Forbes-Murrayintersection . This is the first of the new venturefor the Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition.Another location and three people willbe named next year as Squirrel HillTreasures.

(Jesssica Svec can be reached [email protected].)

Chronicle photo by Lee Chottiner

The Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition just designated the Forbes-Murray intersection as aSquirrel Hill Gem.

specific programs in the Jewish andnon-Jewish communities. The founda-tion has 125 trustees and awards ap-proximately $50,000 per year to pro-grams that promote social change.In addition, Siger chairs The Jewish

Healthcare Foundation, which hasmore than $125 million dollars in as-sets, and she serves on the boards ofthe University of Pittsburgh MedicalCenter, Magee-Womens Hospital Re-search Foundation and The CarnegieLibrary of Pittsburgh. Siger is a longtime member of

NA’AMAT and has been involved withthe Spiritual Adoption campaign foralmost 20 years. Contact Executive Director Dee Se-

lekman at (412) 521-5253 for informa-tion or reservations.

The Jewish Federation ofGreater Pittsburgh has an-nounced new staff and staff assign-ments.The federation has realigned its Fi-

nancial Resource Development De-partment. It also has redefined the re-sponsibilities of four of its team mem-bers and added two new employees.Brian S. Eglash has been promoted

to senior vice president and chief de-velopment officer and currently over-sees all development operations in-cluding the annual campaign, the Jew-ish Community Foundation, supple-mental giving, corporate giving, spe-cial campaigns and the marketing de-partment.Jessica Brown Smith is the new di-

rector of campaign and financial re-source development, supervising theday-to-day administration of the de-velopment team.Along with those changes, the feder-

ation has announced that two of its

former campaign associates have beendesignated senior development associ-ates. Becca Tobe and Roi Mezare willengage donors in philanthropy, com-munity involvement and leadershippositions within the federationcommunity. Also, joining the campaign staff are

three new professionals: Young AdultDirector Evan Durst, Campaign/Mar-keting Associate Becca Ackner andShalom Pittsburgh Associate RachaelAltoff. All three have been active per-sonally and/or professionally in the lo-cal Jewish community.Contact Jessica Smith at (412) 992-

5248 or [email protected] for moreinformation.

Roi Mezare will be the guestspeaker at the United Jewish Federa-tion of the Ohio Valley program Mon-day, Oct. 24, 7 p.m. at Temple Shalom,23 Bethany Pike, Wheeling, W.Va. Adessert reception will precede theprogram.Mezare is a senior development as-

sociate of the Jewish Federation ofGreater Pittsburgh.Call (304) 232-5274 or (304) 233-

4870 for reservations.

Kindergarten InformationNight will be held Tuesday, Oct. 18,from 7 to 9 p.m., in Levinson Auditori-um at the Jewish Community Centerof Greater Pittsburgh, 5738 ForbesAve., Squirrel Hill.The program, organized by the

JCC’s Early Childhood DevelopmentCenter, is free and open to the commu-nity. Refreshments will be served.David May-Stein, assistant superin-tendent of the Pittsburgh PublicSchools, will speak.Contact Kelly Gable-LaBelle, divi-

sion director of early childhood serv-ices, at (412) 521-8011 Ext. 209, formore information. Kindergarten Infor-mation Night is supported in part bythe Marilyn Kramer Memorial Fund.


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NEW YORK — Addressing the UnitedNations General Assembly last month,Palestinian Authority President Mah-moud Abbas declared that he had come“from the Holy Land, the land of Pales-tine, the land of divine messages, ascen-sion of the Prophet Muhammad (peacebe upon him) and the birthplace of JesusChrist (peace be upon him).”No mention of Kings David and

Solomon, nor of the prophets Isaiah,Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Amos, or of thegreat Jewish sage Rabbi Akiva, or ofHillel and Shammai, the most prominentmembers of Jerusalem’s Sanhedrinaround the very time of Jesus Christ’sbirth. Abbas failed to recall Yokhananben Zakkai, who established his yeshi-va at Yavneh only decades later, or, forthat matter, Yehuda Ha-Nasi, who com-piled and edited the Mishna, the compi-lation of the oral tradition that forms thefirst section of the Talmud, in the secondcentury of the Common Era. All thesemen lived in Abbas’s “Holy Land, theland of Palestine” long before the birthof Muhammad. Indeed, the very words“Jews” and “Jewish” are conspicuouslyabsent from Abbas’ speech.Abbas’ deliberate refusal to acknowl-

edge that before either Christianity orIslam ever appeared on the historical ortheological scene, Judaism had beenfirmly ensconced in what is today the

State of Israel speaks volumes.And when Reuters reports that “The

issue of whether and how to suggest thatIsrael should be a Jewish state ultimate-ly sank” the Quartet’s recent diplomaticefforts to revive Israeli-Palestinianpeace talks,” it is time for all of us, inparticular those of us who havelong supported a legitimate peaceprocess, to draw our line in the sand.“My people,” Abbas declared, “desire

to exercise their right to enjoy a normallife like the rest of humanity. They be-lieve what the great poet Mahmoud Dar-wish said: Standing here, staying here,permanent here, eternal here, and wehave one goal, one, one: to be.”Our unambiguous response must be

that we insist on precisely the samerights Darwish demands for the Pales-tinians. For us, a permanent, eternalJewish sovereignty in the State of Israelis not only non-negotiable but must be,especially in the aftermath of the Holo-caust, one of the cornerstones of any au-thentic and hopefully lasting peace.When the remnant of European Jewry

emerged from the death camps, forestsand hiding places throughout Europe inthe winter and spring of 1945, theylooked for their families and, over-whelmingly, discovered that their fa-thers and mothers, their husbands,wives and children, their brothers andsisters, aunts, uncles, and cousins, hadall been murdered by the Germans andtheir accomplices. And yet, they did notgive in to despair. On the contrary, al-most from the moment of their libera-tion, the Holocaust survivors’ defiant af-firmation of their Jewish national identi-ty in the Displaced Persons camps ofGermany, Austria and Italy took theform of a political and spiritually re-demptive Zionism.The creation of a Jewish state in what

was then called Palestine was far more

than a practical goal. It was the one ide-al that had not been destroyed, and thatallowed them to retain the hope that anaffirmative future, beyond gas cham-bers, mass graves and ashes, was stillpossible for them.At Bergen-Belsen, the largest of the

D.P. camps, a popularly elected Jewishleadership headed by my father, JosefRosensaft, made Zionism the order ofthe day. At the first Congress of Liberat-ed Jews in the British Zone of Germany,convened in September 1945 in Belsenby my father and his colleagues, withoutpermission from the British military au-thorities, the survivors formally adopteda resolution calling for the establish-ment of a Jewish state in Palestine, andexpressing their “Sorrow and indigna-tion that almost six months after libera-tion, we still find ourselves in guardedcamps on British soil soaked with theblood of our people.”Two months later, my father de-

nounced the British government’s sti-fling of “Jewish nationalists and Zionistactivities” at Belsen in the pages of TheNew York Times. He further charged“that the British exerted censorshipover the inmates’ news sheets in that theJews are not allowed to proclaim in printtheir desire to emigrate to Palestine.”In December 1945, my father told rep-

resentatives of American Jewry assem-bled at the first post-war conference ofthe United Jewish Appeal in AtlanticCity, according to a report in The NewYork Herald Tribune, that the survivors’sole hope was emigration to Palestine,the only place in the world “willing,able, and ready to open its doors to thebroken and shattered Jews of war-rav-aged Europe.” The following week, TheNew York Journal American quoted himas declaring at an emergency confer-

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Mosque attackJews in Israel and worldwide can

be proud of the community’squick and active condemnation of

last week’s attack on a mosque in theGalilean city of Tuba-Zangariyye.But it’s not enough.As you know, vandals launched an ar-

son attack on the mosque, Sunday, Oct. 2,destroying holy books and prayer rugs.Graffiti was spray-painted on themosque walls. Police later arrested an18-year-old Jewish male in connectionwith the arson.Some of the graffiti made references

to Asher Palmer, a 25-year old Jewwhose car was struck by rocks on theWest Bank on Sept. 25. One rock hit himin the face, causing him to lose control ofthe car. Both he and his 1-year-old sondied as a result of the attack.The Jewish response to the mosque at-

tack was immediate and powerful. BothIsraeli President Shimon Peres andPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuforcefully condemned the attack. Peres,as well as Israel’s chief rabbis and cler-gy leaders from other faiths, visited

Tuba-Zangariyye in a show of solidarity.The response didn’t end there.Nearly 1,000 rabbis in Israel and

America signed a petition condemningthe burning of a mosque, according tothe New Israel Fund, which circulatedthe petition within 24 hours of the at-tack. Fund representatives presentedthe petition to the imam of the Tuba-Zangariya.Ameinu, a progressive U.S.-based

Zionist organization, designated funds tobuy holy books to replace those de-stroyed by arsonists. As Ameinu Presi-dent Kenneth Bob said of the attack,“This is not Zionism, this is not Judaismand there is no place for this in a civi-lized society.”Rest assured, Muslims are watching

the Jewish response, and many are re-sponding to it in a positive fashion. The Islamic Society of North America

praised a statement released by majorAmerican-Jewish rabbis representingthe Orthodox, Conservative, Reform andReconstructionist movements thatcalled attacking a mosque or any reli-

gious building “antithetical to the mostbasic values of Judaism, and cannot bejustified for any reason.”But, as we said above, more could be

done.Some Zionist and pro-Israel organiza-

tions did not issue statements condemn-ing the attack. This is a moral issue, nota political one, and Zionist leaders oughtto speak with one voice in attacking suchcriminal acts.And one need only surf the social net-

works to find Jewish responses along thelines that, these things rarely happen inIsrael, and we should be proud of that.Granted, such attacks are rare in Is-

rael, but they have happened. Our firstresponse must not be to reaffirm theirrarity, but redouble efforts to make surethey don’t happen at all.For the most part, the Jewish world

got it right in reacting to this heinousact, but it wasn’t perfect. Fortunately,it’s not too late to do something. Jewsand Muslims can take this tragic inci-dent and turn it into something positivefor all. Let’s hope we do.

Evoking my father’s defiant Zionist spirit on his yahrzeit

Menachem Z.Rosensaft

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Albanian-Jewish tiesThank you for your article about Albani-

ans (“Photo exhibit pays tribute to Alban-ian Muslims who saved Jews,” Sept. 29). Ihave somewhat closely followed for manyyears the development, or, I should say, there-connection between the two peoples.It is always a pleasure to read in the Is-

raeli newspapers, and just meeting ran-dom Jews from time to time, on their per-ception toward us as a people. When thekind words for our culture come from apeople who have suffered immense hard-ships during the course of history, the re-marks are not only honest, but amplifiedin power regarding the message that theyare ultimately conveying.Albanians have saved even neighboring

forces at times that they came to occupythem (this is strange but true), so onemight say, there’s nothing special about it;they do this all the time. But when it comesto the Jews, few people are aware of theconnections that we share.During World War II, King Zog [of Alba-

nia], when in Britain, asked for more than50,000 Jews to be allowed to settle in Alba-nia. Years ago Haaretz reported on a planto make Albania home of the Jews as well,as its resources could house easily 7 mil-lion people if properly managed. Another thing worth noting here is that

not only King Zog, but even [Albanian]communists, who hanged Catholic priestsand pretty much abolished all religions,never touched any Jewish person who re-mained in Albania. Some rose to veryprominent positions; some, like Mr. RobertSchwartz, have been forever placed in the“hall of fame” of Albania for their im-mense contribution to our culture.And let’s not forget that Albanians hold

themselves very proud to the fact that theyare among the few allowed without visas toenter the Holy Land. I don’t think this is arecompense or token of any kind, but morelike a bond that has endured all the brutalwars that have put brothers against eachother, let alone people and nations.This year, the first synagogue opened in

Albania (I should say the first of moderntimes). In the past, the two peoples havemade contact because of their unparalleled

mobility due to wars and because Jewswere being persecuted by various forces.This time, we are coming into contact tonot just survive, but hopefully build uponthis long tradition of mutual respect.

Valentine DhimaNew York City

(The author is an advisory boardmember to the Albanian Professionalsand Entrepreneur Network.)

A positive thing for whom?I would like to correct a couple points in

your article on the transfer of B’nai Emu-noh to Chabad (“B’nai Emunoh to becomeChabad-owned synagogue,” Sept. 29).

The transfer was not decided by congre-gational vote, contrary to what the articleclaims. The congregation twice voted downsuch a transfer. In the last congregationalmeeting before the transfer, the vote was 53percent to 47 percent to open negotiationswith Chabad. Some of those who voted in fa-vor clearly did so with the understandingthat it would come back to the congregationfor a vote once terms were worked out. Nosuch final vote ever took place.

Of those who were most involved inthe synagogue, coming to its daily morn-ing minyan, the majority were opposedto giving the synagogue, nine or 10Torahs, hundreds of siddurim and sever-al cemeteries to Chabad. Most of thoseinvolved members voted against evenentering discussions with Chabad.

The article quotes someone as saying,“This is a positive thing for B’nai Emu-noh.” I can see that it is positive for severalparties. It is a positive thing for Chabad,which expands into a growing Jewishneighborhood in Greenfield. It is a positivething for Poale Zedeck, Young Israel,Kollel, Charles Morris and the otherminyanim, which have been bolstered bypeople who have left B’nai Emunoh. It is apositive thing for those of us GreenfieldJews who will now get more exercise walk-ing to congregations further from ourhomes. It is not a positive thing for B’naiEmunoh, most of whose most dedicatedmembers have now left for other pastures.

Mischa GelmanGreenfield

(Editor’s note: Following receipt ofthis letter the Chronicle again contactedB’nai Emunoh President Joel Pirchesky,who again maintained that the transferof the synagogue to Chabad was decidedby a congregational vote.)

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ASHKELON, Israel — Turkey, longone of Israel’s more stable and support-ive partners in the region, expelled Is-rael’s ambassador. In Egypt, a peacefulpartner to Israel since the two nationssigned a treaty in 1978, the Israeli em-bassy was attacked by an angry mobwhose members spoke of being willingto die just to have the chance to removethe Israeli flag. And in Jordan, staffersat the Israeli embassy were evacuatedrecently for fear of a similar attack.Israel’s ties with other Middle Eastern

nations may never have been as fragileas they are today, which is a bold state-ment when one considers the history ofviolence and war in the region. It is thatvery fragility that lends new urgency tothe effort to strengthen Israel’s ties toJews around the world.As a people, Jewish unity has been a

primary value of our community. But inthe 21st century, we find the connectionbetween Israel and the Diaspora slip-ping away. Those bonds, critical to Is-rael’s standing and resiliency, must bereinforced so that we are able to contendwith the myriad challenges confronting

us today. My parents were born in Poland, sur-

vived Nazi concentration camps andmanaged to immigrate to Israel. From ayoung age they taught me to appreciatethe Jewish state and never take it forgranted. I witnessed the rebirth of mynation, and I have served my country forthe past 40 years through various rolesin security and public life. But the post-Holocaust Jewish narra-

tive is, in fact, noth-ing less than a

continuum ofthe historic Di-aspora — adistancing thatnow, more thanever, raisestroubling ques-tions about sup-port for Israel fromJews across the world,but especially in theUnited States. My cousin Sammy and I, for

example, share a common past andvalues, but totally different upbringings.Oceans away from my hometown ofAshkelon, Sammy was raised in Detroit,where his father and uncle immigratedafter surviving the Nazis. Sammy grewup as a committed Jew and Zionist, andremains so to this day. We have been close since childhood,

devoted to keeping our families intactwith regular visits and communication.

But will our children and grandchildrenbe committed to maintaining that con-nection and its underlying devotion toIsrael? This has always been of great concern

to me, but it became even more impor-tant on a study trip I took to North Amer-ica several months ago. Organized bythe Ruderman Family Foundation, thetrip showed me thatmy deep personal

concerns formy family tiesare but a mi-crocosm of thedangers facingthe continuityof the Jewish

people. I am notthe first, of course, to

grasp this threat to na-tional Jewish unity and se-curity. Pundits and re-searchers have examined the

Israel-Diaspora relationship foryears, with debates raging over the

ability to sustain this unique bond in the21st century. As politicians, this was a new experi-

ence for all of us. Rather than coming tospeak, we came to listen. Instead of es-pousing our own ideas, we learned fromothers. And some of what we learnedwas alarming. We found out that 12 percent of the

population — more than 30 millionAmericans — hold anti-Semitic views,

according to a 2009 Anti-DefamationLeague survey. We were astonished tolearn of such bigotry in America, thebeacon of freedom around the world,where Jews have thrived for well over acentury. Further, we learned that 35 per-cent of American citizens view Ameri-can Jews as more loyal to Israel than theUnited States.Just as disturbing were inconsistent

statistics about the number of Jews liv-ing in the United States. Various studiesestimate the number of American Jewsfrom 5.2 million to 6.5 million. The vast25 percent difference in the sum sug-gests a serious crisis of identity as to thedefinition of “Jewish” or, as we in Israelframe the question, “Who is a Jew?” InIsrael, we tend to define Jewishnesswith clear either-or classifications. Butby doing so, we risk alienating ourfriends in the diverse Jewish communi-ties around the world and most impor-tantly in America, which finds unitythrough diversity. As Israeli political leaders, this jour-

ney into the American Jewish communi-ty has left us deeply concerned aboutthis divide — and its potential for widen-ing even further at a time when Israelmust depend on friends from abroad.

(Avi Dichter is a member of the IsraeliKnesset for the Kadima Party. He is aformer director of the Shin Bet securityservice and minister of public security.)


OPINION

Bridging the Israel-Diaspora gap is more vital than ever

Guest Columnist

AVI DICHTER

ence on Palestine at the Manhattan Cen-ter in New York City, that, “We know thatthe English are prepared to stop us withmachine guns. But machine guns can-not stop us.” In early 1946, he told the Anglo-Amer-

ican Committee of Inquiry on Palestinethat if the survivors would not be al-lowed to go to Palestine, “We shall goback to Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwaldand Auschwitz, and you will bear themoral responsibility for it.”Small wonder, then, that according to

British Foreign Office documents, myfather was considered an “extremeZionist” and a “dangerous troublemak-er.”��My father, who taught me that alove of the Jewish people and of the

State of Israel is the most important ele-ment of Jewish leadership, understoodthat the goal of a Jewish state was a spir-itual lifeline that gave the survivors ofAuschwitz, Treblinka, Belsen, and allthe other centers of horror a sense ofpurpose and a basis for hope. He died36 years ago, on the fifth day of the He-brew month of Tishrei, midway betweenRosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. I can-not think of a worthier way to honor hismemory than by evoking his spirit andhis uncompromising dedication to thecreation of a new Jewish commonwealthto refute each and every refusal to rec-ognize Israel as a Jewish state.

(Menachem Z. Rosensaft is adjunctprofessor of law at Cornell Law School,lecturer in law at Columbia Law Schooland distinguished visiting lecturer atSyracuse University College of Law.)


OPINION

Every Jewish holiday has a food thatis identified with it, apart from Sukkot.Rosh Hashana has apples and honey.

Chanuka has latkes. There’s haman-taschen for Purim; we eat matza forPesach and blintzes for Shavuot. (YomKippur doesn’t have a food — but it’s afast.)But when it comes to the joyous fall hol-

iday of Sukkot, there is no one specificfood that reminds us of the history of theholiday, or is aligned with its message.You could say (as some do) that we eat

foods that are harvested at this “time ofingathering.” You might point out thatwe like to eat warm, hearty soups be-cause Sukkot is usually a cold, damptime. Or you may say “all of the foods weeat have a special flavor due to the factthat we are eating them outside, in theSukkah” (chabad.org).Nevertheless, the fact remains that

there is no one food that is eaten by all

on Sukkot.Some say we should eat foods that are

stuffed, to symbolize an abundant har-vest and an abundance of blessings. Likestuffed cabbage (aka holishkes), stuffedpeppers, turkey stuffing or strudel.Some have a custom to eat kreplach on

Hoshana Rabba. Kreplach are smallsquares of rolled pasta dough filled withground beef or chicken and folded intotriangles. Hoshana Rabba is consideredthe very last phase of the Divine judg-ment. Kreplach symbolize the hidden-ness of G-d’s verdict.Others eat cabbage soup due to a play

on words: On Hoshana Rabba, one of theprayers is “kohl mevasser, mevasserv’omer” (the voice of the messengercries out). Kohl, in Yiddish, is cabbage,and vasser is water. Hence cabbagesoup.Sephardic Jews eat couscous on

Sukkot. They make it into a stew withmany vegetables, as a way to symbolizean abundant harvest.Whatever your custom, I wish you a

very happy and healthy Sukkot and agood, sweet and peaceful new year 5772.

(Rabbi Eli Seidman is the director ofpastoral care at the Jewish Associationon Aging.)

Where’s the traditional food of Sukkot?

Guest Columnist

RABBI ELISEIDMAN

Rosensaft:Continued from page 6.

BY LEE CHOTTINER

Executive Editor

Andy Statman, considered by many tobe the dean of American klezmer musi-cians, was born and raised in Brooklynand pays homage to his home throughmany of his tunes — “East FlatbushBlues, “Flatbush Waltz” and “OceanParkway After Dark.”

So it may surprise some of his fans toknow that the quintessential nice, Jew-ish klezmer-loving guy from “across thebridge” owes much of his music inspira-tion to — Wheeling, W.Va.?

Nu? Go figure.In an interview with the Chronicle just

weeks ahead of the release of his latest,perhaps most eclectic album to date,“Old Brooklyn,” Statman, now 61, cred-its the “Wheeling Jamboree,” a long-running country/bluegrass radio pro-gram for whetting his taste for his life’swork.

“Wheeling played a great part in mymusical development,” Statman said, re-calling how he used to sit up into thenight listening to the “Jamboree” onWWVA — a 50,000-watt radio stationstrong enough to be heard in New York.

There, he was introduced to legendaryperformers such as Doc Williams andthe Border Riders and many other actshe admits many of his traditional Jewishfans probably never heard of.

“I just remember I was up to 3 in themorning listening to these guys,” Stat-man recalled. “That station played amajor role in me getting into bluegrassand becoming a musician.”

Did the master of klezmer who grewup in a secular household, but has sincebecome an observant Jew, say (“blue-grass?”)

Yep, Statman played bluegrass earlyin his career. He also moved on to jazz,and then klezmer, studying under DavidTarras, whom many klezmer aficiona-dos would label as the genre’s finestclarinetist of the 20th century.

For himself, though, Statman doesn’tnecessarily describe himself as aklezmer performer — not anymore.

“I stopped playing traditional klezmerback in the early ’80s, and already had aband that’s been very innovative,” Stat-man said. “I haven’t really playedklezmer as a folk music in many years.”

“At this point, I don’t worry so muchabout names [of music styles],” headded. “I’ve studied a number of differ-

ent styles and can play in them, but nowI just play music and play whateverseems right at the time.”

Nowhere is that more evident than hislatest two-CD set, “Old Brooklyn.”

Unshackled by the labels of musicgenres, Statman has teamed up withsome of the hottest singers and musi-cians today, including Ricky Skaggs,Bela Fleck and Paul Shaffer, to create amusic package with roots far beyond theBrooklyn Bridge.

The listeners will detect hints of BealStreet, Bourbon Street, the MississippiDelta, Motown, Appalachia, and yes,Eastern Europe, though the klezmer in-fluence is no more or no less importantto this album than any other music style.

“All the music on this record may fit afew genres, but I’m doing it my ownway,” Statman said. “It’s really my ownmusic at this point.”

That is, with the influence of his col-laborators on the album, he added.

Take “The Lord Will Provide,” a well-worn English hymn from the 18th centu-ry. Sung by Skaggs, with Statman onclarinet (he also plays a lot of mandolinon this album), it was Skaggs who sug-gested it be included, and the countrymusic star sings it with slow, deliberatepassion.

“He sang it for me once and I loved itand he suggested we do it so we came upwith a quick arrangement. So to me itssounds like an ancient field recording,”said Statman.

And while the song has an Appalachi-an gospel hint, Statman took issue withthat suggestion.

“It’s just a song about Abraham andHashem and that’s what people are dav-ening and that’s what this song isabout,” he said. “It’s really a song aboutfaith in God.”

Statman hasn’t forgotten his klezmerfans on “Old Brooklyn.” The style is evi-dent on the title track as well as “Shab-bos Nigun” (a duet he played withFleck) and “Totally Steaming.”

Klezmer, according to Statman, hasjoined the American music landscape —played in its purest form, yet also re-arranged and reinterpreted by the musi-cians who have mastered it.

“To me, klezmer music is from a [dif-ferent] time and place, but I thinkklezmer’s last flourishing was in Ameri-ca. Then it picked up a lot of different

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influences here, it sort of became sever-al styles removed from the community itoriginally represented.

Just bluegrass, Dixieland jazz andseveral other styles are now describedas American.

“Musicians can synthesize differentstyles and bring in other influences,”Statman said. “You preserve the past,then you find your own voice in it, whichleads to innovations in the music.”

(Lee Chottiner can be reached [email protected].)

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Preparing for Adat Shalom’s annual Family Sukka Decorating Day are second-graders, fromleft, Jessica Balk, Izabella Stern and Ethan Hunt with help from their teaching assistant,Michele Wolff.

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Barbara and JerryRosenberg sponsored thefall session of TheFriendship Circle’s CookingClub. Pictured with theRosenbergs is FriendshipCircle’s director, RabbiMordy Rudolph.

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The Pittsburgh Area Jewish Commit-tee will be awarded the YWCA’s 2011 Racial Jus-tice Award at a celebration dinner Wednesday, Nov.16, at the Westin Hotel and Convention Center. Theannual Racial Justice Awards recognize communityleaders and organizations that work to eliminateracism and promote equity in Pittsburgh. “Ourpolicies and positions reflect our profound respectfor the dignity of every individual, as preached bythe ancient Hebrew prophets, and our abiding loveof liberty, as taught by this nation’s founding fa-thers. Being recognized for our intergroup work byan organization as highly regarded as the YWCA isa tremendous honor,” said Executive Director Deb-orah Fidel.

Abe Salem, minyan leader and Torah reader,is retiring after serving Congregation Beth Shalomfor 22 years.Congregation President

Stefi Kirschner announcedthat, “After 22 years of ded-icated service and loyalty,Abe Salem is retiring fromCongregation Beth Shalom.Abe has been the minyanleader, Torah reader andthe ultimate storyteller atBeth Shalom. He has in-spired congregants of allages with his stories andtales, complete with Jewishcontent and a message for all.” Salem has touched the lives of all who meet him

and leaves an indelible mark, said Kirschner. Whilehe is retiring, he is not leaving the congregation. Hewill continue to daven the congregation and bringhis spirit to the community, she added.Robert Zaremberg, a graduate student in the

GSPIA program at the University of Pittsburgh, isnow the Torah reader for Congregation BethShalom. He has assumed Torah reading responsibil-ities for all Shabbat and holiday services and chantsTorah in the daily minyan services.

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SPORTS

‘Bear Jew’ Carimi chose observance on YK at Wisconsin

A few years ago, Gabe Carimi had adilemma. Yom Kippur was falling on aSaturday and his University of Wiscon-sin Badgers were playing that evening. It was 2007 and Carimi was a fresh-

man offensive lineman for Wisconsin, alocal kid making it in his home state.Carimi, who went on to win the 2010

Outland Trophy as the nation’s best col-legiate interior lineman (he’s a tackle),wasn’t just one more of these athleteswho happened to be Jewish. Jews in Wis-consin (and elsewhere), after all, hadembraced Brewers outfielder RyanBraun, but Braun admittedly isn’t obser-vant, even if he hasn’t shrunk from thatembrace.No, Carimi had been — and continues

to be — active in the Jewish community.He grew up at Temple Beth El, a Reformcongregation in Madison. He had a barmitzva, a confirmation, the whole works.“He was a shofar blower and had been

up until last year,” said Rabbi JonathanBiatch, who has watched Carimi grow upat Beth El. “Even during his collegeplaying days, he blew the shofar when hewas here. He’s very knowledgeableabout Judaism — a good neshama abouthis Judaism. “That’s why it wasn’t surprising when

Carimi said at the time of his Yom Kip-pur decision: “Religion is a part of me,and I don’t want to just say I’m Jewish. Iactually do make sacrifices that I knoware hard choices.”Carimi didn’t sit out that game back in

2007. Using his liberal, progressive Jew-ish upbringing, he thought creatively. Hedecided to fast according to the Israeliclock, allowing him to do so for 24 hoursand be done by the afternoon. That gavehim enough time to recover and play.“He was dedicated enough to Judaism

to want to observe the holiday some-how,” Biatch said. “He understood there

was a way to do it.”Four years later, Carimi was Wiscon-

sin’s co-captain, a four-time academicAll-American who led Wisconsin to aRose Bowl appearance and a bona fideNFL prospect. The Chicago Bears draft-ed him in the first round and now Carimiis in the NFL, starting at right tackle.(Fans of “The Blind Side” should knowthat’s the same position Michael Ohercurrently plays for the BaltimoreRavens, having moved from left tackle.)Carimi is already being called “The

Bear Jew,” a nod to his background, histeam and his size: He’s listed as being 6feet 7 inches and 316 pounds. One has tothink that he made for one outstandingTekiah G’dola blower as a result. He’salready been welcomed by the Jewishcommunity in Chicago and vice versa,perhaps one of the few times folks fromWisconsin and Chicago have ever agreedon anything football related (see rival-ries, football: Packers vs. Bears).It’s not surprising to those who know

him that Carimi could so quickly bringpeople together. “He has a gentle spirit and soul,” Biatch

said. “His physical prowess, he does hisjob. He performs his task. It’s important for

his team and yet, whenever you see him,he’s a very sweet and loving man.”This makes it very easy for Carimi to

be a role model in a time when athletesare thrust into such positions without ac-tually deserving it. His dedication to his

community and his excellence on thegridiron make him worth admiring bothin and out of the Jewish community.“Children look up to him and enjoy the

fact Gabe is part of our community andnow a professional player,” Biatch said.“For adults, it’s a further sign that Amer-ican Jews have made it. Still, wheneversomeone comes — Braun, Shawn Green— these people continue to remind usthat we can do anything.“I think the stereotype of the small,

scrawny Jew is broken wide open. Itbreaks down those stereotypes. It defi-nitely is a positive for us. I have a sensein Chicago there’s a lot of pride eventhough he’s a new resident.”And what if Carimi is forced with an-

other play vs. fast dilemma in his pro ca-reer? Something tells me he’d choose theright path, though he is helped by howthe Jewish calendar is devised.“Yom Kippur never falls on a Sunday,”

Biatch said. “It can only fall on a Mon-day, Wednesday, Thursday or Saturday,for a myriad of reasons.”

(Jonathan Mayo, the Chronicle’ssports columnist, can be reached [email protected].)

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He kills John Lennon again, andfrankly it’s a relief.In his newest book, “John Lennon and

The Jews: A Philosophical Rampage,”Ze’ev Maghen delineates exactly whythe music legend’s most dearly espouseddream — captured poignantly in hissong “Imagine” — is anything but that.He then weaves this thesis into the an-swer to the question that has plaguedJewry in recent decades: What is reallyso important about being Jewish?Maghen, who is chairman of the De-

partment of Middle East Studies at Bar-Ilan University as well as a senior fellowat the Shalem Center in Jerusalem,writes in surprisingly casual prose. Withstatements that drop your jaw to thefloor and cause you to frequently eruptin laughter, he snatches you from wher-ever you had plopped down to read hisbook and drops you right down by hisside. At a bar, debating life’s biggestquestions over a cold beer.

This is the kind of environment hiswriting style creates, and it draws youin. If you read Maghen’s book, you areforced to think — hard.Using bits of philosophy, history and

logical deduction, Maghen argues thatLennon’s dream, universalism — the de-sire for the world to live “as one” with nodifferentiating characteristics — actual-ly spells out the destruction of what is atthe core of being human.To illustrate this point, Maghen speaks

directly to you, a tone consistentthroughout the book, and asks what youvalue most in life. Pre-empting the ex-cuses and circumventions most of uswould take to get around the question,Maghen focuses us, asks the questionagain, and delivers the answer we mayhave already known subconsciously:love.Not just any love though, but preferen-

tial love, Maghen clarifies. “Preferentiallove” is the term Maghen applies to thekind of love that identifies some people(lover, mother, child) as special and oth-ers (strangers) as not. This kind of lovestands in stark contrast to the universallove advocated by Lennon and others:that one is applied to everyone equally.The kind of love that “distinguishes and

prefers,” Maghen writes, is the only kindof love that’s really worth living for, and isat the core of how we humans work. “Weall love preferentially, and that’s the onlykind of love we value, the only kind of lovewe want back from the people we love.”He continues that it is, and always will

be, in human nature to prefer certain peo-ple over others, to create groups and com-munities that they relate to better thanothers, love more than others. Most of all,Maghen advocates that this is a good wayto live, in fact, the best way to live.

These kindsof preferences,Maghen ex-plains, lead tomulticultural-ism, to a worldof “dazzling di-versity, of inde-pendent andself-respectingsocieties andcommuni t iesthat value, re-tain, and revelin their ownuniqueness ,”and the onlything that canactually lead topeace.Peace, while

unattainable through Lennon’s method,actually becomes a possibility when dif-ferent people and cultures find a com-monality in what matters most to them,Maghen argues. “Prefer your family, andyou will have something genuinely incommon with all decent … loving humanbeings the world over, an experience toshare with almost everyone,” he writes,“and there’s the real common ground foryou: we all love preferentially. There’s thereal basis for cross-cultural understand-ing. There’s the only potential for peace.”But what about fascism and other past

and present murderous regimes, youask? Good question, and one thatMaghen diffuses easily. To find out how,you’ll have to read the book.So, where does Jewishness fit into all

of this? Maghen explains that in order tocreate multiculturalism, we have to cul-tivate multiple cultures all over theworld. Simple enough, but what we oftenforget is that Jewishness is one of thosecultures. Still, what does that evenmean? What is it, really, to be Jewish?This is when Maghen really spells it

out, and in so doing, provides us the toolsto explain what we have instinctively feltsince we each realized the fact that wewere Jewish. We’ve all been there, ques-tioned by our gentile friends or signifi-cant others, “Why is being Jewish so im-portant to you — you don’t even go to tem-ple!” or “How can you care so much aboutIsrael — you’ve never even been there!”Maghen’s answer: doesn’t matter. The

term “Judaism,” the religious componentof being Jewish, is a modern invention,

not even mentioned in the Torah once.The word, “Jew” then, or “Yehudim,” as itis written in the biblical text, is a geo-graphical or national term, describing apeople who are from the land of Judea.“The house of Jacob … has always

deemed itself one vast extended family,glued together over four adventurous mil-lennia by a whole slew of factors, only oneof which consists of belief in and obedi-ence to that timeless national constitutionknown as the Torah,” Maghen writes.Being Jewish is a form of kinship, being

a part of the same family, with the samehistory, and the same destiny. “The futureof the Jewish peoples is as much up to youas it is up to the current Israeli primeminister,” Maghen writes. It is this tribalbond that connects Jews across the world,almost as if one electrical current runsthrough us all. It is a bond, Maghen ex-plains, that has dissipated for many othertribes over the generations, and thus is aforeign concept to most, which leads theworld to label it as “Jewish exclusivism.”Maghen’s book is not the run of the mill

philosophy “fluff” thrown at you in col-lege. It’s gritty, it’s down to earth, it’s real,and it’s challenging to do justice to it here.Peppered with fun facts (did you know Is-rael may be currently owned by a nun?),humor, personal stories and history cometo life, the book makes you take a look ateverything society and institutions ofhigher learning have taught you to takefor granted and simply ask, “why?”Maghen allows the reader to feel — re-

lief. Relief that it is okay to judge, tochoose, to identify and to think thatmaybe John Lennon got it wrong.

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BOOKS

‘Worldly Goods’ a chilling love story that strikes an eerie note“All Our Worldly Goods,” Irene Ne-

mirovsky’s slender novel, is a model ofeconomy, capturing an enormousrange of emotion and relationships inspare, simple language.The story follows a prosperous

small-town French family from happytimes at the beginning of the 20th cen-tury, through the slaughter and de-struction of the needless war of 1914to the despair of the next one, as a pan-ic-stricken, incompetent France col-

lapses in 1940.Nemirovsky, a Jew born to a wealthy

Kiev banking family in 1903, moved toFrance during the Russian revolution,attended the Sorbonne, and became ahighly successful writer for newspa-pers and journals and of other books.She was killed in Auschwitz in 1942.Her acclaimed “Suite Francaise,” setin Paris as the Nazis take over, lay un-known and unpublished until 2006.“All Our Worldly Goods” was pub-

lished in France in 1947 and in Eng-land in 2008.In her “translator’s note,” Sandra

Smith provides a worthy description,saying that the book “is about love: for-bidden love, married love, unrequitedlove, the love of parents for their chil-dren, of people for their homes, of citi-zens for their country.” True, but don’tmisinterpret that as sort of a chick-flickon paper. “Worldly Goods” is much

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Please see Wordly Goods, page 20.

B’nai MitzvaClaireHolthaus, daugh-ter of Vicki andDaniel Holthaus,will become a batmitzva Saturday,Oct. 15, at 9:30a.m. at Congrega-tion Dor Hadash.Grandparents areRichard and Judy

Roth of Cincinnati and the late Williamand Jean Holthaus.

Julia EmilyRobb, daughter ofMarcy and JamesJordan and GeraldRobb, will become abat mitzva Saturday,Oct. 15, at TempleEmanuel. Grand-parent is MarianNathenson

DavidZaretsky, son ofGregory and AlineZaretsky, will be-come a bar mitzvaSaturday, Oct. 15,at Adat Shalom.


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have been doing 30 years ago: stop thedamn settlements.”But the result of returning the land on

which the settlements are built is a hardpill to swallow for many Israelis.“There are 600,000 Israelis living over

the Green Line,” he said. “Even if Abbasoffers what he offered to Olmert — that62 percent of settlers can stay — thatmeans that 200,000 Israelis will have tocome back. A lot of people in Tel Avivcan’t envision how to do that.”While the settlement issue needs to

be resolved in order to proceed with alasting peace, Avishai believes thePalestinians’ right of return “is amore fundamental issue that needs tobe addressed.”

“I think the time has come for bothsides to get much more serious and spe-cific about what they really want,”Avishai said.

He believes what the Palestinians re-ally want is something akin to the SouthAfrican Truth and Reconciliation Com-mission, which was set up by the Gov-ernment of National Unity to help dealwith what happened under apartheid. “The Palestinians want a common in-

stitution between Israel and Palestinethat will provide redress for individualfamilies that lost property and had theirlives totally destructed,” he said. “Peo-ple who were wounded by the 1948 warwant redress and want their stories told.Avishai believes Israel should put the

right of return at the forefront of peacenegotiations.“There is no reason Israel should look

at the law of return last,” he said. “Ithink that’s misguided. It has to startwith the right of return, just as a

divorcing couple starts with custody of achild rather than who gets the rug in theliving room.”Israel needs to set up ways for Pales-

tinians to seek compensation for theirlosses, and ways for them to choose ei-ther monetary compensation or to re-turn to the land. The number of Pales-tinians who would actually choose to re-turn to Israel rather than stay in a newPalestinian state is relatively low, ac-cording to Avishai.“Polling was done in 2003,” he said.

“If you look at all the Palestinians inthe camps, you’ll never get more than30,000 people who want to go back toIsrael.”If those numbers are true, Israel

should not be concerned with losing itsJewish majority. And if the Palestinianscan define what kind of Jewish state isacceptable to them, another roadblockon the path to peace can be removed.

“Abbas should say what kind of Jew-

ish state is consistent with universaldemocratic principles,” Avishai said.“He doesn’t have to say ‘I accept a Jew-ish state no matter what kind of a stateyou are.’ Abbas could even welcome aJewish national home in Israel as long ashe stipulates as to what that means.”“I think it’s crucial to understand that

a two-state solution is in Israel’s inter-est, and that it’s not the end of the road.It’s a provisional thing,” Avishai said,noting that evolving cooperation will beneeded on issues such as the administra-tion of Jerusalem, water and securityarrangements.“The two states will have to be cooper-

ative,” he said. “But we won’t be able toget to it unless we can envision what co-operation can mean.”

(Toby Tabachnick can be reached [email protected].)

Avishai:

Continued from page 2.


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Book Review?“All Our Worldly Goods,” by Irene Nemirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith, Vintage Trade Pa-perback Original, 272 pages.

more: war, destruction, rebuilding, renewal andfear, all delivered with what Smith aptly calls“the astute psychological and social observationfor which Nemirovsky is now known.”The story centers on Pierre, grandson of

Saint-Elme’s leading citizen — a somewhatbenevolent tyrant who owns a paper mill.Grandfather has arranged for Pierre to marryplump, orphaned heiress Simone. But Pierresecretly and chastely has been meeting Agnes,daughter of a brewer and thus lower in thetown’s rigid social order.Soon after a lavish engagement dinner, he an-

nounces his desire to marry Agnes instead. Hisparents object, his enraged grandfather disin-herits him. Agnes and Pierre marry quietly inParis, and he begins work as an engineer, livinghappily with Agnes in Spain. But in July 1914,Pierre is called to join his regiment.Nemirovsky’s minimal words bring maximal

effect in describing Agnes and Pierre’s agonyof separation, the flattening of Saint-Elme andthe suffering of its residents, and Pierre’srecognition of the futility of the Great War. Hereturns mostly recovered from wounds thatwill leave him with a painful hip.Grandfather relents a bit — although shun-

ning Agnes — and takes Pierre into the papermill, rebuilt partly with funds from Simone,who becomes co-owner. She has married aParisian she met in a ditch while fleeing Ger-

mans and installed him at the mill. They have anattractive daughter, and, as a good novelist wouldcontrive, she attracts the attention of Pierre’s sonGuy.In the intertwined lives of these two families,

Pierre and Agnes are pretty much the soul of good-ness. Simone, unforgiving of Pierre, becomes fat,widowed and unhappy. The families live in quiet,tolerant dislike.Everyone’s mood deepens, and relationships

change, in dread of a second German war. Pierreand Agnes have a new, greater fear when Guy ismobilized.Described, this might seem tame, but the plot’s

twists, individual dramas and surprises pull you inand keep you glued. Nemirovsky captures theshock, fear and resignation of her adopted nationas it is outwitted and outfought in Hitler’s invasion.Smith says “Worldly Goods” shows no author

premonition of impending doom, but instead “anunderlying feeling of hope.” Yet, mid book, is what,with our knowledge, is an eerie note: At the grand-father’s 85th birthday celebration in 1924, he re-calls that his grandfather lived to 103, but consid-ers his failing health and concludes that he won’tlive to that age — which would be in 1942.

(Neal Gendler is a Minneapolis writer and editor.)

Worldly Goods:Continued from page 15.

thechair people used the tip money for par-ties for the volunteers,” he said. ButFeuer and Schwartz wanted to do some-thing bigger and more meaningful fortheir volunteers, so they began savingthe money.

While different ideas were discussed,Feuer and Schwartz ultimately decidedthat the best way to honor their volun-teers would be to purchase a Torah withtheir volunteers’ tip money.

“I can’t think of a better way to honorthe bingo workers for their hard workthan to have them purchase a Torah,” hesaid. “And I’m not aware of any otherTorah purchased by bingo tip money.”

But while the new Torah will only hon-or the congregation’s bingo volunteers,it will also help the congregation, too, byseeding further fundraising and enthusi-asm, according to Feuer.

Feuer and Schwartz have collectedover $37,000 in tip money over the last10 years. Of that, about $35,000 will goto purchase a 10-pound Torah, lightenough to be carried by the elderly andfrail, and thus furthering Beth El’s “in-clusion agenda,” said Miles Kirshner,president of the congregation.

“Our Torahs are currently no lessthan 25 pounds, and some are as heavyas 45 pounds,” Kirshner said. “The ideaof the new Torah is that the physical sizewill be normal, but it will be made out ofa lighter weight parchment. It will befully kosher, but it will only weigh nineto 11 pounds.”

And the scribe will be instructed touse a “font that is eminently readable toencourage more people to be included,”Kirshner added.

The scribing of the Torah will be a“yearlong educational process,” Kirshnersaid. The scribe will leave about 500 let-ters in outline form to be filled in later.

“When the sofer (scribe) comes to theshul, any individual or family can touchthe feather of the quill, and will bedeemed to have performed the mitzva ofscribing a Torah,” Kirshner said.

As for his part, Feuer sees the oppor-tunity to participate in the scribing ofthe new Torah as a kind of secondchance.

“I was determined to get this projectdone after my cardiac arrest,” he said.“You’re supposed to write a Torah oncein your lifetime. I blew it. This is mysecond chance.”


Torah project:Continued from page 1.

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Many people are in denial that do-mestic violence is a problem in Jewishmarriages, according to Golin.

There are many misconceptions in theJewish community about domesticabuse, Golin said. “It does happen in theJewish community. It is a much largerproblem than people would like to be-lieve.”

There are many reasons why the Jew-ish community is reluctant to acknowl-edge the breadth of the problem.

“First, Jews are a minority, and theyare not wanting to share their dirty laun-dry,” Golin said. “They feel shame.”

Many Orthodox women who are vic-itms of domestic abuse face more pro-nounced hurdles in coming forth, henoted. In the Orthodox community, theymay be concerned about finding mar-riages for their children [if the family’sreputation is tarnished].”

There is also the doctrine of “shalombayit,” or “peace in the home,” Golinadded.

In the Orthodox community, he con-tinued, there can be a stigma attached todivorce and separation.

“There is pressure to preserve themarriage,” he said. “Sometimes womenget the message that they need to pre-serve it no matter what is going on.”

All calls to the Shalom Task Force hot-line go directly to New York, and thecalls come anonymously to the trainedvolunteers working the phone. The vol-unteers can only see from what city thecalls have been made. They will then re-fer the calls coming from Pittsburgh totrained local counselors. Depending onthe particular situation, referrals canalso be made to other resources such aswomen’s centers and shelters.

Shalom Task Force also takes meas-ures to prevent domestic abuse by send-ing trainers to provide education aboutthe problem to Jewish day schools,teaching young women the signs of a po-tentially abusive domestic partner.

There are many different kinds of do-mestic abuse, Golin said, including emo-tional, physical, financial and sexual.

“These are all different strategies forone individual to control the behavior ofanother individual, which can result in awoman feeling powerless and victim-ized,” he said.

“In other racial and ethnic communi-ties there seems to be less of a stigma,and women are more likely to speak up,”Golin continued. “In the Jewish commu-nity, this seems to be more of a problem.There are not good statistics in the Jew-ish community. It is highly underreport-ed, but we know it’s happening. ShalomTask Force is a witness to that.”

Shalom Task Force has operated ananonymous domestic violence hotlinefor the Orthodox and immigrant Jewishcommunity since 1993. Since January2009, it has received over 2,800 calls. Inthe last 14 months, calls to the hotlineincreased over 10 percent. The severityof the calls has also increased, with 70percent of all hotline callers requiringpeer counseling and/or safety planning.

The STF has “the seal of approval ofthe Orthodox community,” Golin said,“with rabbis sitting on its board. Its ex-ecutive director, Daniel Schonbuch, is arabbi.”

“There is a need for this resource forwomen in Pittsburgh,” said TzippyRosenberg, a former teacher, who hasbeen working with the task force to cre-ate Project Harmony. “The Shalom TaskForce told me that women have beencalling them from Pittsburgh even be-fore we started this project.”

Rosenberg, who is Orthodox, and ateam of volunteers have been busy put-ting flyers in women’s restrooms in syn-agogues around town, and leaving busi-ness cards that women can discreetlytake.

“It takes an Orthodox woman manytimes longer to go for help than other[victimized] women,” Rosenberg said.“Maybe it is because they are in such aclose-knit community, or maybe it is be-cause of the shame involved. Maybethey think it is better for the children. Itis not more prevalent in the Orthodoxcommunity, but whatever is out there, isin the Orthodox community as well.”

“We are trying to educate peopleabout what the red flags are,” she con-tinued. “If there is a son who has realproblems, we want them to know theyhave to get him help, and they can’t justmarry him off.”

The STF, through Project Harmony,has also been training local rabbis aboutthe problem, Rosenberg said.

“The presentation started out teach-ing the rabbis from classical Jewishsources about how to help Jewishwomen, and why it was imperative to doso,” she said.

“It is a problem,” she said. “It is thereand we have to address it. Even if wehelp one person, it is worth my effortand worth my time.”



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